Stephanie Shinn
Stephanie Shinn
IAM Engineer | PKI | Post-Quantum Cryptography
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About

IAM Engineer with a background in identity engineering, PKI, and security automation across enterprise cloud environments. Experienced in SSO integrations, CI/CD pipelines, and operational support for identity platforms. IEEE-published researcher focused on post-quantum cryptography and securing real-world systems against emerging threats.

A few fun facts
  • 🎤 Singer/songwriter
  • 🎸 Guitar player
  • 🎶 Karaoke enthusiast
  • 🐕 Yorkie mom

Experience

IAM Consultant (IAM Engineer)
Cargill, Inc. | Wayzata, MN
Aug 2025 - Present (Remote)
  • Materially contribute to PKI migration to PKIaaS.
  • Code tooling in Go language to support Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for IAM platforms.
  • Implement automation across identity platforms (e.g., PKI, Authentication and Authorization).
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., IAM products and platforms, Cloud Security, Application Risk Management, and Data Engineering).
  • Mentor junior engineers on identity and security best practices.
Associate IAM Consultant / Platform & Infrastructure Engineer
Cargill, Inc. | Wayzata, MN
Oct 2022 - Jul 2025 (Remote)
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Vela) supporting IAM tooling and operations.
  • Resolved SSO integration and authentication issues for SAML and OIDC applications.
  • Managed PKI certificate lifecycle operations.
  • Developed internal API libraries.
  • Authored SOPs to standardize IAM operations.

Education & Research

M.S. in Computer Science
Metropolitan State University | Dec 2025 | GPA 3.88
  • Thesis: CRYSTALS-Kyber KEM Decapsulation with Single-Point Pseudo-Random Cache Flushing
📄 Published Research (IEEE)
CRYSTALS-Kyber KEM Decapsulation with Single-Point Pseudo-Random Cache Flushing
Published in IEEE | Presented at VCRIS 2025, Vietnam | Oct 2025
Impact: 100% attack prevention in a vulnerable cloud environment with 6.2% performance improvement.
Professional Development
Organizations: PKI Consortium (PQC Workgroup) • Cargill Women in IT • Cargill Women's Network • Cargill Young Professionals Network • National Society of Leadership & Success
Conferences: VCRIS 2025 - Hanoi, Vietnam • Open Source North 2025, 2026 - St. Paul, MN • Keyfactor Connect 2026 - Philadelphia, PA
Training: Udemy (Java Programming Masterclass) • LinkedIn Learning (Go Programming, Azure DevOps, REST APIs, HTML/CSS)

Skills

Identity, Security & Cryptography

IAM, SSO (SAML, OIDC), PKI, QS-PKI / PQC, Security-as-Code

Cloud Identity, IAM Platforms & Enterprise Tooling

Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, AWS, Active Directory, Keyfactor, Sectigo, Jira, HashiCorp Vault, Datadog, SailPoint

Automation, CI/CD & IaC

Vela, GitHub Actions, Go, Terraform, Docker, Podman

Programming & Scripting

Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, Bash, PowerShell, JSON, YAML

Applied AI / Data Analysis

Jupyter, Scikit-learn, LLM workflows, Local & hosted LLM tooling

Web & Creative Tools

HTML, CSS, Astro, Starlight, Adobe Creative Suite